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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Sunday Film News Roundup -- December 11th, 2011

Nothing happened this week. Seriously. There were some awful trailers for crap like What to Expect when You're Expecting, and New Years Eve got sent through the critical buzzsaw as pretty much every who wasn't involved in making it thought it would.

Okay, the two things that happened this week were the Scott Rudin/David Denby dustup, which happened on Monday, and the Muppets thing, which I think started on Sunday night and everyone was done with by Tuesday.

If anything else happened this week it was drowned out in my Twitter feed by the Albert Pujols, Artem Anisimov and Ryan Braun news.

The blog will be busy starting Monday though, when we start up a series we hope you'll like.

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UPDATE! MORE AWARDS!

-The Artist won Best Film (Scorsese Best Director) from the Boston Crits. (Deadline)

-And the AFI top 10 lists seems to be a good guess at what the Best Picture Oscar noms will look like. (Deadline)

Sheesh, a guy goes out to finally see The Skin I Live In (holy shit, what a film) and misses all of this stuff.

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Previously, on the Roundup...

-Scott Rudin is kind of a genius for milking this nothing story about David Denby breaking the embargo on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reviews. Now it's all anyone is talking about, especially since he (probably) released his email back-and-forth with Denby to The Playlist. (IndieWire)

-Speaking of Dragon Tattoo, here's a story on the original Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace and what she's up to now. (NY Times)

-After that stupid Twitter hoax a few months ago, it seems that Sofia Coppola has actually found her next movie: about the kids who broke into Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton's houses. (TMZ... yeah, I read/watch TMZ, so what of it?)

-Something I didn't know: Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader's back-and-forth with Bruce Springsteen ended up in Born in the USA. Those papers and more are now open for research at the University of Texas, should you happen to be researching a book on Scorsese or Dylan or the American obsession with Japan. (UTexas)

-If movie executives dream of Philip K. Dick stories, why do they always basically just take the title and change everything else? (The Guardian)

-Another Top 10 list is in: Mr. Skin's top 10 nude scenes. Surprisingly, this link is safe for work, but it will lead you to Google said scenes, which will not be safe for work. No Shame. Pfft. (Egotastic)